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  2. Body transfer illusion - Wikipedia

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    They saw a lifelike rubber left hand in front of them. The experimenters stroked both the subjects hidden left hand and the visible rubber hand with a paintbrush. The experiment showed that if the two hands were stroked synchronously and in the same direction, the subjects began to experience the rubber hand as their own.

  3. Exploding watermelon stunt - Wikipedia

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    The concept of putting rubber bands around a watermelon until it explodes first became popular on the internet as early as at least July 2012, when the stunt was filmed by The Slow Mo Guys with a very high frame-rate camera, but earlier videos date back at least to 2008.

  4. Rubber tapping - Wikipedia

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    Rubber tapping in Indonesia, 1951. Rubber tapping is the process by which latex is collected from a rubber tree.The latex is harvested by slicing a groove into the bark of the tree at a depth of one-quarter inch (6.4 mm) with a hooked knife and peeling back the bark.

  5. Maceration (bone) - Wikipedia

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    Skeleton of swine prepared by bone maceration. In the process of maceration, the carcass is first skinned and defleshed by hand as much as is practical, and all internal organs are removed. In this process, extra care is taken when removing the eyeballs, ears and jugular muscles, because some bones are shallow and brittle, such as the thickened ...

  6. Joint cracking - Wikipedia

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    Joint cracking is the manipulation of joints to produce a sound and related "popping" sensation. It is sometimes performed by physical therapists, chiropractors, and osteopaths [1] pursuing a variety of outcomes.

  7. Unnecessary Fuss - Wikipedia

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    The experiments were conducted as part of a research project into head injuries such as is caused in vehicle accidents. Sixty hours of audio and video tapes were stolen from the laboratory on May 28, 1984, by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), described in their press release as the "Watergate tapes of the animal rights movement". [1]

  8. Knucklebones - Wikipedia

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    The pastern bone of a sheep, goat, or calf has two rounded ends upon which it cannot stand and two broad and two narrow sides, one of each pair being concave and one convex. The convex narrow side, called chios or "the dog", was counted as 1, the convex broad side as 3, the concave broad side as 4, and the concave narrow side as 6.

  9. Payne effect - Wikipedia

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    Strain amplitude dependence of storage and loss moduli in filled rubber. The Payne effect is a particular feature of the stress–strain behaviour of rubber, [1] especially rubber compounds containing fillers such as carbon black. [2] It is named after the British rubber scientist A. R. Payne, who made extensive studies of the effect (e.g ...